Queensland Consolidated Acts

CHILD PROTECTION ACT 1999 - SECT 142C

142C Obtaining police information from police commissioner

(1) The chief executive may ask the police commissioner for information, or for access to the police commissioner’s records, to enable the chief executive to learn what police information exists, if any, in relation to a person mentioned in section 142A .

(2) If there is police information about the person, the chief executive may ask the police commissioner for a brief description of the circumstances of a conviction or charge mentioned in the police information.

(3) The police commissioner must comply with a request under subsection (1) or (2) .

(4) However, the duty imposed on the police commissioner to comply with a request for information applies only to information in the police commissioner’s possession or to which the police commissioner has access.